[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: resolve_symlink in shell scripts
From: |
Yoshinori K. Okuji |
Subject: |
Re: resolve_symlink in shell scripts |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Nov 2003 02:26:14 +0100 |
User-agent: |
KMail/1.5 |
On Thursday 20 November 2003 00:37, Jason Thomas wrote:
> coreutils provides a program called readlink which we can use instead
> of resolve_symlink. Is coreutils a base package on all current GNU
> based distros?
Maybe. But I recommend not relying on readlink in our shell script, as
it is possible that readlink does not exist in a specific environment,
such as an installer. Is there any problem with resolve_symlink? IIRC,
it was written by you.
Okuji